Graduation Year
2021
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Art History
Reader 1
Bill Anthes
Reader 2
Ciara Ennis
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Abstract
This thesis discusses the use of bodily matter in contemporary art, identifying an emergent tendency in which artists manipulate the materiality of the body, often via experimental media, as a means of uncovering new modes of racial and gendered embodiment.
Recommended Citation
Ma, Devon, "The Body After Representation: Figuring Posthumanist Corporealities in Contemporary Art" (2021). Scripps Senior Theses. 1678.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1678
